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Ummm No, This is Not the Galaxy SIII

As much as some sites would have you believe, this is not actually the Samsung Galaxy SIII. You will probably see it all over the interwebs this weekend with “ZOMG! SGSIII images leak!” tags, but trust us, this is not it. It certainly looks pretty, and it should, since it’s just a render that a reader created at some Russian concept phone site.

The real SGSIII will more than likely be unveiled at Mobile World Congress next February. Back when the Galaxy Nexus was still mostly a rumor, we saw a 4Chan person spit out some potential SGSIII specs that a Samsung rep had reportedly provided in a presentation, but you should have stopped reading when I said “4Chan.” Although, he was right on the G-Nex.

So with all the HARKING the nexus turns out to be a big O POS!!!! I’m
laughing at all you idiots HARKING at how great the NEXUS is that it is
the gold trophy of all 2011 phones… LAUGHABLE!!!! I knew the nexus
would be full of bugs and with its WEAKA$$ gpu and a embarrassing camera
to boot, but now there’s all sorts of failed concept like its face
unlock and lets not forget about its HORRENDOUS speakers/ earpiece. Oh
SH!T and I haven’t even mentioned its JITTERYA$$ performance with it
pinch to zoom (flash on) and scrolling with livewallpaper? LAUGHING
and WTF is the point of LTE speed when it has WEAKA$$ signals???
LAUGHING again

Wclayton44

k.

Mood

You high!

Anonymous

If you’re not going to contribute to the conversation then don’t comment.

Alexander Garcia

LOL Wow! I think someone’s seriously mad bro…

Bionic

you mis-informed? Bro?

Anonymous

Good thing this is fake. Looks so ugly.. And I really hope that the soft keys will not look like that. I dont understand everyone’s obsession over having no bezel. THE BEZEL IS THERE FOR A REASON. It’s to prevent accidental presses and will probably save you a scratch or two as well. And quite frankly, as appealing as a bigger screen is, it simply looks bad and makes the phone seem uneven or not even slightly aesthetically pleasing… The only nice thing about this render is the clock widget and back of the phone. Once again, thank god this is just a fake render.

CHARLES COX

Looks just like those iPhone 5 leaked pictures from last summer. Zero Bezel.

Anonymous

Good thing its not, this looks terrible.

Anonymous

i really REALLY like that clock widget…thats like the only thing i like about touchwiz…is there a way to get it for a non-samsung phone?

I’d love to have a slider version of this! A true sequel to the Epic and Stratosphere!

Steve

Make it global too and I’m in.

Anonymous

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Anonymous

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Anonymous

The iphone 5 is rumored to have almost zero bezel. Which means Samsung will copy and get sued again.

Tim242

You mean 6. The 4S was th.e 5th gen

Joseph

The side bezels need to be little thicker but the top and bottom bezels are just right.

Anonymous

What are you talking about – the whole idea is to make no side bezels on the phone – just screen real estate – something no one has been able to do yet. Get a clue – if this phone was real and out today and loaded with ICS I would buy it any day of the week. This would have destroyed the GNex – accept it.

Keith Sumner

wtf over react much? All he said was that the bezels should be thicker on the sides, relax buddy.

Marlan

With those side bezels, my fingers would wrap around the phone and activate the touch screen while holding in portrait mode. The top and bottom bezels would be perfect. I’m assuming the screen is in the 4.3″ range if I don’t include the buttons like the Nexus.

Anonymous

Relax dude, I do agree that a LITTLE bezel on the sides wouldn’t hurt

Anonymous

IMHO, this concept is kind of absurd…having zero bezel. I already tip-tap a buncha hooey on the Razr as it is, especially in landscape! Where the frig are we supposed to put our fat fingertips?

for the dev community, the pure android experience can be had on every phone though, and since the GNex is a dev phone, most of us have already rooted and changed a few things around on it…but i agree updates over cores..the GNex is snappy even running a stripped down stock Android v4.0.3…

SamsungIsSatan

One clock says 10:08 and the other says 4:00. Typical Samsung product.

Anonymous

Troll alert!

Anonymous

where do i get a clock like that?

Anonymous

I’m almost positive that Kellex lurks 4chan by now.

jelly, 4chan, u mad bro, y u no… the list goes on

Dieter

If only they could make a phone like this. I really don’t like the large bezels on all the new phones.

Anonymous

ladies and gentlemen, I give you the first example of a crappy manufacturer skin placed over top of ice cream sandwich.

Ytram

Folks, bezels aren’t there for some technical hardware reason. They’re there to keep you from accidentally pressing something when you’re holding the phone in portrait orientation.

Jim

Ya but the bezels on the new phones are just too big. The bezels on my TBolt are smaller and I never touch the screen accidently.

Dear lord that is hideous. I seriously don’t get why people are so anal about a .5cm side bezel. Also most of this render’s ugliness is easily the WHOA-LOOK-OUT-WE’RE-IN-UR-FAYZE!!!1 UI, and those cartoonish navigation buttons. Makes TouchWiz look attractive by alternative.

Cue the flames.

Anonymous

On a side note…

Dang! Renders are getting so good these days that I often have a hard time being able to tell which images are real pictures of devices and which are renders. Kudos to whomever can draw this well!

On second thought, I just remembered, real images are always blurry until a product is released…apparently beta versions of pre-released hardware can only be photographed on beta cameras…you know, the ones where they haven’t added in the focus “feature” yet…smh.

Spec wise the SII is still superior … that was the point. Only flaw is the OS for now

Anonymous

Spec wise SII has slightly better processor, but GNex has LTE.

SII has a better camera too, but I don’t care about that. GNex is more than fine for anyone who doesn’t care about photography.

Anonymous

The 4460 in the Nexus is better than the GSII’s Exynos. The SII is essentially on par with the 4430. Remember the 4460 in the Nexus is being underclocked, it’s really a 1.5ghz native chip. The GSII has a better GPU and camera though for sure.
Test’s are really hard to compare because aside from the obvious of they don’t really matter, the GPU does a lot of the work and there’s a big difference in the WVGA GSII and 720p in the Nexus.

Anonymous

Yaay, even more reason to shut those GSII fanboys up.

Also, wow, I must have been tired if I forgot the screen. Overall, GSII owners have really nothing to feel smug about.

Tim242

WVGA Samoled plus vs Samoled minus HD. Not really a difference

Anonymous

I actually wasn’t comparing screens, other than the fact that Nexus at 720p requires a lot more processing power to draw than the GSII affecting the ‘benchmarking’. However now that you mention it. There is a pretty big difference in the screen too. I’ll gladly take 315ppi @ 4.6in HD vs 218ppi at 4.3 in SA+

Tim242

PPI isn’t everything. But, since you mention it, the PPI is only that high while watching Netflix, or YouTube. Not while viewing pics, or browsing, etc. Not to mention, the resolution is a bit lower, while buttons are present, as well as screen only being 4.3.

Anonymous

oh yes, a whole 90 px that go away a good deal of the time… If the ‘subpixel arrangement’ that you can’t see at over 300ppi is your argument for why a GSII has a better screen than the Nexus…I’ll probably stop here. There is no way a WVGA screen is better than an HD screen. Open a website on both phones side by side, I have, choice seems clear to me. SA+ is great, but I can’t see how it wins this discussion.

I totally agree with you. I don’t see what everyone is drooling over. It looks way too big and a phone definitely needs a little more bezel than that. Plus it isn’t even running ICS xP

Anonymous

Don’t care. I want it!

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